Sassy dance show XX is back for its second season at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre. This naughty little rendezvous about the most intimate of acts, the kiss, played its first season at the popular Capetonian venue last year. (more...)

Just in time for previews, which start tonight 11 February in the West End, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL has announced an extension through 18 February 2017. The Daily Mail revealed this evening that 200,000 new tickets are now on sale. (more...)

SHOW BOAT will be sailing from Sheffield to London when the Crucible's hit production transfers to the West End this spring. The Daily Mail writes that stars Gina Beck, Emmanuel Kojo and Rebecca Trehearn will move with Daniel Evans' production of the classic musical from April 9 at the New London Theatre. (more...)

Artistic Director Daniel Evans today announces that the world premiere of Richard Bean's THE NAP - directed by Sheffield's Associate Director Richard Wilson - will extend its run by one week to the 2 April due to popular demand. (more...)

?Praised by the late Beatles promoter Sid Bernstein - the man who brought the original Beatles to North America - as 'the best on the scene today' The McCartney Years, a note-for-note faithful recreation of a 1973 Wings over America concert, performs at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at 8pm. (more...)

The Kennedy Center's 2015-2016 World Stages series continues with three trailblazing, multidisciplinary works that are coming to Washington, D.C.: Laurie Anderson's Language of the Future: Letters to Jack (March 4-6); Monica Bill Barnes's Happy Hour (March 10-11); and Van-Ánh Võ's The Odyssey: From Vietnam to America (March 11-12). With a long history of presenting original international works, these programs reinforce the Center's commitment to presenting leading performers and companies from the United States and abroad, offering D.C. audiences an entryway to global arts and culture. (more...)

Political author, Jean Sarantos, in her new book entitled, 'Crush! Crush! Crush! (Heads, I Win. Tails, You Die!),' has turned a 'spotlight' on the economically and politically connected wealthy 1%. The book reveals the inner thinking and overt actions of the very powerful and wealthy wherever they exist anywhere throughout the world and throughout history.
Sarantos has devised a creative device for telling their story. A fictional member of this elite has written an 'autobiography' that proudly reveals and explains all that is necessary to understand how he and his like-minded friends have risen to the top of the economic and political food chain. The philosophy for their modus operandi is the same as that of the Rulers in the popular motion picture, 'The Hunger Games':
I am a predator.
You are my prey.
I take whatever I want.
I route the flow of wealth from you to me.
I suppress all efforts to challenge me.
If you resist, I will crush you.
'Crush! Crush! Crush! (Heads, I Win. Tails, You Die!)' provides details and helps 'flesh out' and demonstrate this philosophy. It will help the reader to interpret and understand current events and to help make sense of the turmoil reported in everyday news stories. Thus, the reader will have a tool for understanding all current events.
Furthermore, one of the 2016 Best Picture Oscar nominated feature films, 'Spotlight', exposes how the most powerful and prominent Catholic Church clerical elite and leading officials unbelievably systematically attempted to suppress their covering up of widespread and known sexual abuse of thousands of minor children.
Author, Ms. Jean Sarantos, has rejected traditional interpretations of historical events learned in public schools and universities. She earned a B. A. degree in Political Science from Michigan State University and earned an M.A. degree in Political Science from The University of Michigan. However, the establishment's 'spoon-fed' limited pursuit of the truth fell far short of reality. Therefore, the author has researched and provided 150 citations, including many current sources provided to help interpret history and current events. Thucydides, Thoreau, Melville, Churchill, Kissinger, Ayn Rand, Robert Reich, Nomi Prins, and Matt Taibbi [whose kind words encouraged the author], are quoted to bolster the author's assertions. 'Crush! Crush! Crush! (Heads, I Win. Tails, You Die!)' is written in a lively manner with cartoons and limericks.
Sarantos earned the honor of 'Professor of the Year for Academic Excellence' at Westfield State College (MA) and has completed over thirty years as an educator in public education. She has also published the book, 'It Takes a Potemkin Village (To Raise a Child's Test Scores)' [currently out of print] which revealed systematic cheating by public school administrators.
More information can be found online at: http://www.jeansarantos.com/
For More Information Contact:
Jean Sarantos
PO Box 2824
Midland MI 48640
Phone: 989-839-9080
E-Mail: jeansarantos@yahoo.com
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On Sunday February 21 at 8 pm, Emergent Arts' newest Sunday night show at The Yellow Barn, 'Stage Time', will display some of the best and brightest talent the state has to offer, followed at 9:30 pm by Emergent Arts' own UNclub Open Mic. Tickets to "Stage Time"at 8 pm are $10 at the door or on-line at www.emergentarts.com. UNclub Open Mic at 9:30 admission is by suggested $5 donation at the venue. (more...)

Producer Danna Hyams has announced that Broadway favorite John Bolton has joined a star-studded cast that includes Gerard Canonico, Justin Guarini, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Rupert, Brynn Williams and Emmy Winner Sally Struthers in two special reading presentations of Bret Simmons and David Howard's new musical THE FIRST GENTLEMAN at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, on Monday, February 22th at 3:00 PM and 6:30 PM. (more...)

As previously announced, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL will be shakin' it in the West End next spring. And now The Daily Mail has revealed the musical's dates at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, the show is set to begin previews on February 11, with an opening slated for March 8, 2015. (more...)

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in partnership with The Dance Centre, presents Words in Motion, March 18 & 19, 7:30pm, in the Telus Studio Theatre. This innovative series explores the power of words in performance - both as an agent of change, and as a means of igniting important dialogue. Vancouver-based authors Carmen Aguirre, Aislinn Hunter, and Nancy Lee pair with diverse choreographers, Anusha Fernando, Olivia C. Davies, and Paraskevas Terezakis, to interpret three renowned texts into original works. (more...)